Charles Blow: Newt’s Southern Strategy

But, as he rises, so grows the dark shadow that he casts over his party and the grievous damage he does to its chances of unseating President Obama…Gingrich is appealing to (and exposing) an ugly, gut-level anger and animosity among a sizable portion of the Republican electorate. This may work for him in the primaries, but it doesn’t bode well for his party in November.